Whales Campaign
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This is the grim reality:
In an interview with Australia's ABC TV, Mr Komatsu stated that he saw nothing wrong in buying votes. He admitted that a number of countries have accepted aid in return for backing Japan's efforts to get commercial whaling restarted and described aid as 'a major tool'. Mr Komatsu also referred to minke whales, which Japan is allowed to catch under a clause within the IWC that allows 'scientific research' whaling as "cockroaches of the oceans"
The Fisheries Agency of Japan is continuing its campaign to bring back commercial whaling by attempting to buy the votes of members of the International Whaling Commission. Get youir action kit striaght from Greenpeace by clicking this link - Whaling Campaign Action Kit It includes letters, posters, stickers and tips. If you want to shoot them - do it with a camera.Why kill something to study how it lives. |
All that's being asked is an effective method for protection of the whales by allowing them to live in a climate where whaling is forbidden not just temporarily, but for the indefinite future and the benign study and conservation of whales is encouraged.
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Despite the moratorium on whaling imposed by the international community in 1986, the whales are still threatened.
Since the late
nineteenth century, most populations of whales in the world have been decimated by
commercial whaling. 
A number of countries and their whaling industries continue pushing for resumption of commercial whaling.